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The ITS Barunastra Team succeeded in defending the Champion title for the 5th time at the 2023 International Roboboat Competition (IRC) in Florida, United States.
In the 2023 International Roboboat Competition (IRC) which was held in Sarasota, Florida, United States last March, one of the ITS Robot Teams won 2 championship categories namely 1st Place Grand Champion and 2nd Place Design Documentation International Roboboat Competition 2023. This is the Time The 5th Barunastra team managed to win the championship on IRC.
There were 2 FT-EIC students who joined and departed to take part in this competition. Namely I Wayan Agus Darmawan from Computer Engineering 2021, and Nawab Aditya, Student of the Department of Electrical Engineering 2019. The Nawab explained that this year Barunastra is coming with a ship named Nala Proteus. And there are 2 categories in this competition. The first is the Autonomous category, or a category that assesses how proficient a ship is in moving automatically and the Design Documentation Category. Regarding the flow of the competition for the two categories, it is the same.
First, in the Design Documentation category, the team will make a Technical Design Report, Team Video, and also a presentation in front of the judges. Furthermore, from the explanation previously presented, the ship’s performance will be tested through Autonomous missions. There are 8 missions given, and to qualify, you must pass at least 3 missions given. Then if you successfully pass the qualifications, the next stage is the Semifinals and Finals.
Photo of the ITS Barunastra Team with their newest ship, Nala Proteus in the 2023 IRC championship
When asked about what innovations he brought and the technical differences from last year, Nawab replied “Last year, we realized that there were still deficiencies in the mechanical design, so there was a mission where our ship had to avoid balls, because it is autonomous, we cannot take over, because the mover is in the middle so the ball gets stuck. this year we revised the propulsion to the side so even if it hits a ball it doesn’t get stuck and it can still run,” said Nawab.
The influence of water conditions became one of the challenges for the Nawab and the Team to improve the ship’s condition so that it could adjust to conditions in the race. “Here the water is calm, there is a lot of wind and the waves are quite big, so we enlarged the dimensions a bit and raised the electronics so they weren’t hit by the wind,” said Nawab.
At the end of the interview, the Nawab representing the ITS Barunastra Team expressed his gratitude to all those who have supported him so far. Starting from the supervising lecturer, ITS parties, and ITS IKA. In addition, for companies that contribute and help Barunastra ITS to be able to take part in the 2023 IRC event.